beadroll
nounEtymology From bead + roll.
1
Obsolete A catalogue of people whose souls are to be prayed for.
2
A catalogue of names; a pedigree, a long respected series.
- Dan Chaucer, well of English vndefyled, / On Fames eternall beadroll worthie to be fyled.1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto II”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
- It is quite startling, on going over the beadroll of English worthies, to find how few are directly represented in the male line.1806, Abraham Hayward, “Vicissitudes of Family […] ”, in Foreign Quarterly Review, volume 107: